Saturday, July 7, 2012

Reading List Update

Awhile back I posted a list of books I hope to read this year. I've been slowly making my way through the list and like usual, I've added a few books to the list (new additions are in bold, strike-through titles are finished):

There will surely be more additions as the year rolls on. In the meantime, I vow to finish Ezra Pound's radio broadcasts. They're tedious and require a great deal of research to comprehend. One a day, at most, is all I can stand. God bless him.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts on Pound. You seem to be reading/have read a lot on him. I have softened on him a little, but scrawled in the margins of one of the Cantos or Hugh Selwyn Mauberley in my Norton Anthology is the statement to the effect that a poet's magnum opus ought to be his life. I've always admired "il miglior fabbro" as a poet, his poems were influential and very good... I just don't know if I can separate the poems from the man.

Oh, and as far as what's on my summer reading list... well I'm currently studying for the Praxis exam for Teaching Gifted and Talented, so my summer reading looks like this:

* Tons of back issues of Gifted Child Quarterly and The Roeper Review* Alternative Assessment with Gifted and Talent Students, Joyce VanTassel-Baska (Ed)* Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers, by Judith Wynn Halstead

Also to reread a ton of gifted ed books I've already read including almost everything Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Joseph Renzulli have ever written. I've got a busy summer ahead of me.

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